Gearing up to see "Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912" at the Kimbell in Fort Worth. I remember roaming around the South of France and seeing Picasso works in many places, mostly small museums or displays. This was in the 1980s and there were many people who'd met him personally -- he'd only died in 1973. I met Wallace Fowlie in Durham, North Carolina, and he had tons of good stories related to Picasso and friends. For his Rimbaud translation -- Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, 1966 (pictured above) -- he'd gotten Picasso to sketch Rimbaud, an act that took the artist just moments of scribbling. The new exhibit ought to be fun.
Here's The Modern Lovers song "Pablo Picasso" from 1972, pioneering in the Velvet Underground proto-punk style.
Today's Rune: Signals.
2 comments:
I'll always remember a story that Bradbury wrote about a man coming upon Picasso drawing masterpieces in the wet sand at the beach and how they were erased by the tide coming in.
Hey Charles, cool beans ~~ I remember "The Smile," another good Bradbury story involving art.
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